"What would it matter if, for the sake of the Christian Church, one were to tell a big lie?"
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"Ultimately, however, conflict lies not in objective reality, but in people's heads. Truth is simple one argument - perhaps a good one, perhaps not - for dealing with the difference. The difference itself exists because it exists in their thinking."
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"What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good."
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"I compare it with a lie, which like to a snowball, the longer it is rolled the greater it becomes."
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"The horror of Gandhi's murder lies not in the political motives behind it or in its consequences for Indian policy or for the future of non-violence; the horror lies simply in the fact that any man could look into the face of this extraordinary person and deliberately pull a trigger."
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"I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand."
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"A false identity is any lie that contradicts our God-given identities through Scripture. These false identities can be created by ourselves because of sin in our lives, choices made, or wrong turns taken and the regret, guilt, and shame that follows. Other false identities are handed to us by outside sources, maybe a damaging word spoken to us by someone or a childhood of abuse. However, not all false identities are negative on the surface, such as successful, attractive, wealthy, athletic, or talented. But even those identities can become false when we place too much of our weight on them."
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"I truly believe that if someone is believing a lie about who they are right now, that God's desire for you is to be set free from that once and for all. Ask him to show you where that false identity is coming from. Ask him to show you how differently he sees you than how you view yourself."
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"Difficult is a far cry from impossible. The distance between these two lies hope. Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Invite one to stay."
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"Hatred is the ballast of the rock which lies upon our necks and underfoot."
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"O cruel cloudless space, And pale bare ground where the poor infant lies! Why do we feel restored As in a sacramental place? Here Mystery is artifice, And here a vision of such peace is stored, Healing flows from it through our eyes."
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"I feel often very close to the ecstasy and anguish which lie at the very heart of poetry - I am writing a lot."
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"Pretty Women Wonder Where My Secret Lies, Im Not Cute Or Built To Fit A Fashion Models Size."
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"I've always considered myself a good person. I've never done anything to purposely hurt anyone. I was in shock that this happened to me, and because it did, I turned into this vengeful person. I've never truly hated anyone, but I was glad when I saw him lying there on the floor."
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"When I think it's good not to say the truth, I don't say anything. I don't like actors in general, they lie, they are liars, trust me."
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"the best lie is wrapped around a core of truth"
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"After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it. Whence it comes to pass, that we see some men, who are otherwise very honest, so subject to this vice."
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"I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head."
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"It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney on a broom stick; and that it is far less astonishing that witnesses should lie, than that witches should perform the acts that were alleged."
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"A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man."
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